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On 2024-07-31 05:50:03 +0000, candycanearter07 said:
-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote at 02:01 this Sunday (GMT):
Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
On 2024-07-20 11:07:59 +0000, -hh said:
On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:
"Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been >>>>>> since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024
during the Pixel 8 launch. With Google's Pixel 9 family due to be announced
in August, Apple's iPhone will be two generations behind Android's AI >>>>>> efforts before it has even left the Cupertino stage."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2024/07/18/apple-iphone-16-pro-max-apple-intelligence-ai-sales-demand-new-iphone/
What do you expect from a company whose advertising budget dwarfs R&D. >>>>>
But how does it actually matter how far someone is "behind" when the >>>>> shiny new widget still isn't all that great, and doesn't actually
reliably provide meaningful productivity gains?
uttinf
Case in point, AI asked to render salmon swimming upstream:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/yijd3c/they_asked_an_ai_engine_to_recreate_a_salmon/>
Ignoring the fact that AI is utterly useless and nothing more than
another fad gimmick ...
Well, it may be a fad .. or perhaps not (at least for certain niches).
Real point is that it is still formative and immature today.
[snip]
Yeah, I personally dislike AI.
As far as I can find, the only people who actually like AI are those
making money from creating it or pointlessly adding it to every product
they sell to get gullible to upgrade yet again. :-\
"AI" has so many different meanings that it depends on who you ask.
Most "AI" is some form of statistical modelling - ML, ANN, DL, CNN - which
has been around for decades and is very powerful & useful. In the right context.
Trying to disentangle real AI - oxymoron? - versus snakeoil "AI" is tricky. Even in the scientific community there's little distinction by the funders, propagating the uncertainty.
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